Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Description

This year we will return with the 2025 edition of the Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health summer school in Utrecht!

This course provides an overview of Maternal, Newborn and Child health care, globally. With an enthusiastic team of experts, we will discuss the major challenges which women and children in the world are facing, and we will look at potential solutions.

Guest lecturers will provide interactive sessions, alternated by small group work, to address the following learning objectives: 

• Discuss key challenges in global maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH);
• Explore various public health and clinical strategies to improve MNCH outcomes;
• Discuss the role of the Sustainable Development Goals in achieving MNCH outcomes;
• Collaborate effectively within an international group of participants and faculty.

This programme is a collaboration between the University Medical Centre Utrecht  (Julius Global Health, Wilhemina Children's Hospital), Amsterdam Centre for Global Child Health (ACGCH) and the Dutch Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health. 

The 2025 Global MNCH Course booklet with a full overview of the program and guest lecturers, is available here.

A sense of renewed energy on improving global maternal health and a great interest into the field of research concerning global maternal health.

Day to Day Documents

1st Edition_Feb2025_CourseMag_MNCH.pdf

Lecturers

Lectures will include experts from the organizing institutions (UMC Utrecht, Working party for International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health) as well as other institutions including the University of Ghana and Action on Preeclampsia Ghana.

Lecturers include:

• Prof. Dr. Kitty Bloemenkamp (Wilhelmina Children's Hospital)
• Prof. Dr. Louis Bont (Wilhelmina Children's Hospital)
• Dr. Marcus Rijken (UMC Utrecht, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Hospital; Working Party on Safe Motherhood and International Reproductive Health)
• Dr. Joyce Browne (UMC Utrecht)
• Dr. Tarek Meguid (University of Namibia)
• Prof. Dr. Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh (University of Ghana, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital)
• Koiwai Koi-Larbi, LLM (Action on Preeclampsia Ghana)
• Dr. Regien Biesma (UMC Utrecht)
• Salim Wangabi (Greater Accra Regional Hospital)
• Eva Stortelder (UMC Utrecht, Netherlands Society for International Surgery)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas van den Akker (Leiden University Medical Center, Working Party on Safe Motherhood and International Reproductive Health) 

The 2025 Global MNCH Course booklet with a full overview of the program and guest lecturers, is available here.

Target audience

This course is open to all with an interest in global maternal, newborn and child health, including:

• (PhD) researchers
• Health professionals such as medical doctors, nurses, midwives
• Policy makers

• Master’s level students (Medical/global health/public health/biomedical sciences)

  Professional accreditation can be requested with the Dutch Societies for Obstetrics/Gynacology, Global health and Pediatrics (NVOG, NVTG and NVK.)  Please contact us if you are interested to discuss other accreditation options.  

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to give the participant a thorough introduction into global maternal, newborn and child health health, discuss obstacles and possible solutions to improve health at a global and local scale within an international environment.

Study load

Full-time, one week. 

Tags

• child health
• global health
• maternal health
• newborn health